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Reply-To: "Kevin Aylward"
From: "Kevin Aylward"
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
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Subject: Re: Alan Blumlein site
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Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:04:21 +0100
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"John Woodgate" wrote in message
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> I read in sci.electronics.design that Kevin Aylward
> wrote (in
.ntli.net>) about 'Alan Blumlein site', on Sun, 15 Sep 2002:
> >Put 100 suitable
> >*qualified* people in the same conditions as Blumlein. How many of
them
> >would have come up with a diff pair. I think this distinction
matters.
> >No doubt other opinions exist.
>
> Yes, other opinions do exist. If ADB only invented the LTP, your
> argument would have merit, but he invented hundreds of other things,
at
> an incredible rate. And this wasn't a case of no-one else trying; LOTS
> of people were working in the emerging field of electronics - but
almost
> all of it was emerging from ADB.
I was not commenting on whether or not Blumlein was a genius or not.
However, as I have noted in other posts in this thread, simple making
1000's of inventions, do not, by themselves form a qualification to the
term genius.
Kevin Aylward
kevin@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
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